Davis v. Deen

|,Appellant Willie Gaster Davis, Jr., appeals an order of the Desha County Circuit Court dismissing his pro se petition for writ of mandamus against Thomas Deen, prosecuting attorney, or in the alternative, for an order directing the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory to provide him with certain records pertaining to his criminal case.

In 2010, Davis submitted a request pursuant to Arkansas’s Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA” or the “Act”), codified at Arkansas Code Annotated sections 25-19-101 to-110 (Repl.2009), to Richard Gallagher, Custodian of Records for the crime lab. In the FOIA request,…